The former president denied any communication with PL president Valdemar Costa Neto after Santa Catarina governor Jorginho Mello said the two “talk a lot”
The former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) denied, on Saturday 18th, having contact with the president of the PL, Valdemaro Costa Neto. The statement was a response to statements made by the governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello (PL), who said in an interview that the two – Bolsonaro and Valdemar – “talk a lot”. Both are under investigation and are banned from communicating as established by the minister Alexander de Moraesfrom Federal Supreme Court (STF)to avoid hindering the investigation into the attempted coup, an investigation which is underway in Court.
“[Jorginho Mello] he slipped. At the time of the interview, he said that he regretted not being able to talk to Valdemar and said that I talked to Valdemar a lot. So it’s not true, it was his mistake. As far as I know, he made the note the same day,” he said.
The statements were released on Saturday morning while Bolsonaro accompanied his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro (PL), at Brasilia airport. THE The former First Lady is part of the delegation that will participate in the inauguration of the president-elect of the United States, donald trumpscheduled for Monday in Washington.
Last Monday, the 13th, the governor of Santa Catarina declared in an interview The young Pan that Bolsonaro and Valdemar “talk a lot”.
“Our president Valdemar talks a lot with President Bolsonaro, who is the honorary president, right? I hope that soon they can talk in the same room, right? To help each other even more,” Jorginho Mello said.
After the interview, Moraes, rapporteur of the investigation, ordered the federal police to collect the governor’s statement within 15 days to determine whether Bolsonaro and Valdemar had recently maintained contact.
If proven, the communication between the two will constitute non-compliance with the precautionary measure imposed by the minister in February 2024, under the legislation Operation Tempus Veritatisinvestigating an alleged coup plot in 2022, after Bolsonaro’s defeat in the presidential elections for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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